Richard Christian

Just look at this giant tribble...

Such a gigantic influence on me when I was a young artist...

Corner cabinet bookcase, artwork, chair and side table for reading.

The image is a piece of fan art titled "Klimt Eastwood," created by Carl Tétreault in 2016. It depicts actor and director Clint Eastwood in a style inspired by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, specifically referencing Klimt's "The Kiss".

Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

Death and Life, 1908, by Gustav Klimt

"Vasta", Pencil on Illustration Board

I absolutely loved this book cover as a kid! It was a definite formative influence on me as a young artist! The mood you captured in that particular time of day, juxtaposed with the action was perfect!

My oil painting, "Enoch Instructing Hiram Abiff", published just recently as an interior illustration in Bro. Ken JP Stuczynski's new book: "Masonic Research Lodges, Bodies, and Societies."

The Art Spirit by Robert Henri. A gift from a wonderful Art Mentor, which as an art teacher I have carried on the tradition by giving a copy to one of my students this past year!

Fire and Ice

Fire and Ice

"Sojourn", Acrylic on Canvas.

"Sojourn", Acrylic on Canvas.

Thank you! :)

Painting with two stylized female figures in front of a window overlooking the blue sea and a partially cloudy sky. On the left, a woman with green and purple skin wears a deep red cloak and looks to the side with a restrained expression. On the right, a figure with blue skin and a colorful stripe on her forehead wears a black cloak and points toward the background.

JEAN COCTEAU. Phèdre et Oenone. 1951. Huile sur toile, signée "Jean C" et datée 51 en bas à droite. 146 x 114 cm

"Epona", Combine on Painted and Collaged Shirt Set Down on Canvas.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe.

Will we listen to his words today?

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) :
Urizen, from Blake's Ancient of Days, 1794

English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

"Epona", Combine on Painted and Collaged Shirt Set Down on Canvas.

Franz Marc : Birds, 1914

Oil on canvas
109 x 100 cm | 42.9 x 39.3 in

"Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful, and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy, and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two."

David Bowie – Life On Mars? Directed by Mick Rock From Hunky Dory, released in 1971. Order via Amazon UK & US below: CD. Vinyl. (UK) CD. Vinyl. (US)

David Bowie – Life On Mars?

Hunky Dory (1971)

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This drawing on rag paper is "Nehushtan" or brazen thing- it alludes to the destruction of the serpent staff Moses was ordered by God to create, which was destroyed generations later by the iconoclastic King Hezekiah. It symbolizes a move from formal high art to a literal, word based obviousness.

Thank you! :)

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Post-Impressionist painting by Paul Sérusier, ‘The Talisman’ (1888), depicting a landscape with yellow and green trees, a blue house in the background, and its distorted reflection in a river.

Paul Sérusier (“Under the direction of Paul Gauguin”): “ The Talisman” or “The Aven, walk in the Bois d'Amour” , 1888. Sérusier painted the work under Gauguin’s guidance, who encouraged him to use free and symbolic colors, breaking away from naturalism. 🖌️

"Temple", Oil Painting on Cotton Shirt over Canvas with Collaged Drawing and Thread.

"Temple", Oil Painting on Cotton Shirt over Canvas with Collaged Drawing and Thread.

Bruce Pennington, “Ishtar” (n.d.).

This one is Marmageddon's older adoptive brother, Gandalf- a half-Main coon cat who I imagine has an inner voice very similar to Alan Rickman's, with a similar level of patrician judgement.

L>R: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feiniger, Gunta Stoltz and Oskar Schlemmer.

The twilight of the Weimar Era.

The advanced thinkers, artists, designers, and instructors of the Bauhaus, 1919-33, gather on the roof of their Gropius building for a group portrait.

Names of the people in the photo listed in the alt text. 👇